From the New York Times, this is the interview.

I'm David Marcasey.

How well do we know our friends, our neighbors, ourselves?

In the new documentary, Will Farrell and his best friend and frequent collaborator, Harper Steel,

take a cross-country road trip together to try to answer those questions.

Hitting the highway on a quest for meaning

is a classic American story.

But this time there's a fresh angle.

Harper is a trans woman who came out to her friends,

including Will, two years ago.

That was after years as a comedy writer,

many of them at Saturday Night Live,

where they both worked, and where Harper eventually

became a head writer.

They both have mixed feelings about their work at S&L,

as they explained to me.

They also had some ups and downs on their road trip, which was ultimately a chance for them

to talk through what Harper's transition means for their friendship, and for them both to get a clearer

sense of how their fellow Americans really feel about transgender identity.

The film's soul-searching often comes wrapped in laughs, but given how politicized trans rights have become,

especially in the past few years, even situations

set up for comedy can turn tense. There's a scene in the movie where Harper and Will

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